L5 Engineer Evaluation Workbook

L5 Principal Engineer — Promotion & Performance Evaluation Workbook

Scoring scale: 0–5 (decimals allowed)

Practice Summary

Guild	Management Practice	Criteria	Self Score (%)	Assessor Score (%)	Delta (%)
Sales Guild	Stakeholder Engagement Management	6	—	—	—
Delivery Guild	Business Analysis Management	6	—	—	—
Delivery Guild	Consulting Management	3	—	—	—
Delivery Guild	Project Management	3	—	—	—
Technology Guild	Platform Architecture Management	4	—	—	—
Technology Guild	Software Engineering Management	4	—	—	—
Technology Guild	Solution Engineering Management	6	—	—	—

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Detailed Criteria

Sales Guild

Stakeholder Engagement Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L5-SGM01	Has authority and responsibility for all aspects of a significant area of work, including policy formation and application.	___	___
L5-SGM02	Fully accountable for actions taken and decisions made, both by self and those that consultant manages.	___	___
L5-SGM03	Makes decisions critical to organisational success. Influences developments within the IT industry at the highest levels.	___	___
L5-SGM05	Develops long-term strategic relationships with customers, partners, industry leaders and government.	___	___
L5-SGM04	Relentless in pursuit of business value and obsessed with customer satisfaction.	___	___
L5-SGM06	Highly praised by senior or executive staff across customers.	___	___

Delivery Guild

Business Analysis Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L5-BAM01	Owns and manages the creation of practice assets, go to market offerings and strategy	___	___
L5-BAM02	Leads and manages the creation and execution of program level budgets for strategic customers over multi-million dollar projects Leads strategic customer program execution strategy and scope.	___	___
L5-BAM03	Discusses program level execution strategy, scope and budget with the customer executives and directs programs be to able to be implemented on time and budget without sacrificing quality.	___	___
L5-BAM04	Actively seeks and creates opportunities for further work within the region.	___	___
L5-BAM05	Leads on the formulation and implementation of strategy.	___	___
L5-BAM06	Applies the highest level of management and leadership skills.	___	___

Consulting Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L5-CM01	Advances the knowledge and/or exploitation of IT within one or more organisations.	___	___
L5-CM02	Has a full range of strategic management and leadership skills.	___	___
L5-CM03	Understands, explains and presents complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels up to the highest in a persuasive and convincing manner. Assesses the impact of legislation, and actively promotes compliance. Takes the initiative to keep both own and subordinates’ skills up to date and to maintain an awareness of developments in IT.	___	___

Project Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L5-PM01	Is responsible for cross-practice alignment of solution sets, standards and methodologies	___	___
L5-PM02	Evidence of being recognised as a trusted adviser by multiple major customers, partners or industry bodies, with track record of influencing bodies of work at major customers and frequent contribution to external events. Contribution can be facilitated through forums such as Yammer, Blogs, The Juice, Practice Meetings, Tech Talks, Mid-monthly meetings, conferences, external blogs and technical Forums.	___	___
L5-PM03	six new topics per year on forums, and/or four internal live presentation every year, and/or two external user group presentation every year, and/or ownership of a technical area e.g. presenting at one external event every 12 months, and/or contribution to sales meetings presenting CA Labs offerings.	___	___

Technology Guild

Platform Architecture Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L5-PAM01	Broad and deep knowledge of the architecture of most Microsoft suites, platforms and offerings. Broad and deep knowledge of the architecture of competitor suites, platforms and offerings.	___	___
L5-PAM02	Can describe and document guidelines for integration of process and data across an entire enterprise and many application domains. This/her includes enterprises that employ a large variety of non-Microsoft technologies, practices and solutions.	___	___
L5-PAM03	Can assist clients with the creation of risk management plans for an organisations enterprise architecture.	___	___
L5-PAM04	Can lead the Business Architecture creation/review process with customers of organisations of all sizes.	___	___

Software Engineering Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L5-SEM01	Communicates the potential impact of emerging technologies on organisations and individuals and assesses the risks of using or not using such technologies.	___	___
L5-SEM02	Has a deep understanding of the IT industry and the implications of emerging technologies for the wider business environment.	___	___
L5-SEM03	Has a broad and deep IT knowledge coupled with equivalent knowledge of the activities of those businesses and other organisations that employ IT.	___	___
L5-SEM04	Has a broad and deep knowledge of competitor offerings and can articulate the benefits of CA Labs offerings.	___	___

Solution Engineering Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L5-SOL01	Visionary in innovative solution design.	___	___
L5-SOL02	Presents inspiring and thought provoking papers and talks around a variety of technical and conceptual topics.	___	___
L5-SOL03	Rapidly develops conceptual or logical solution designs and works assists architects to understand tough or new technologies or processes.	___	___
L5-SOL04	Is a visionary for the organisation in the development methodology space.	___	___
L5-SOL05	Takes authority for the development of Technical Quality artefacts in the consultants domains of expertise.	___	___
L5-SOL06	Transforms internal business drivers into consultant ready assets, policies and standards.	___	___